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SOCHI DAILY NEWS: Tuesday Feb. 11

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USSA

2014-02-10 13:58

In so many ways, Julia Mancuso’s bronze medal was more golden. Mancuso, after leading the super combined downhill, put together the singlemost important slalom run of her career to take her fourth career medal – becoming only the third U.S. Winter Olympian to do so. (Photo: Getty Images-Matt Stockman)

In so many ways, Julia Mancuso’s bronze medal was more golden. Eight years ago the Squaw Valley native showed the world that she was a big event skier who thrived when the chips were down and conditions were poor. Fast forward to Monday and Mancuso, after leading the super combined downhill, put together the singlemost important slalom run of her career to take her fourth career medal – becoming only the third U.S. Winter Olympian to do so.

Deneen put up a strong fight but fell short against almost flawless skiing from Canadiens Bilodeau, Kingsbury and Russian, Smyshlyaev.

Brad Wilson finished in 20th.

Aerials training continues on Tuesday.

The women compete on the Friday, Feb. 14 and Mac Bohonnon, the only U.S. male competes on the 17th.

QUOTESPat DeneenThe Canadians have a few really strong skiers and today they showed that. The course is pretty crazy. It's a little different than it was yesterday and we have to adapt to that each time. It's part of the sport though and it's something we know and adapt to as much as we can. The course didn't freeze last night like we wanted and it was warmer today which definitely had an affect on the hill.

NORDIC COMBINED

On Monday, nordic combined athletes participated in a successful in-venue media day with turnout including Reuters, AP, New York Times and more.

In practice, athletes took two jumps instead of three due to hill preparation.

The opening nordic combined competition is scheduled for Wednesday.

SKI JUMPING

Women's ski jumping training was underway again on Monday in preparation for historic competition Tuesday evening.

Sarah Hendrickson, Jessica Jerome and Lindsey Van will form the Team USA lineup for the women’s ski jumping debut.

In Sunday’s men's final, the U.S. failed to advance to the final round.

The next competition for men’s ski jumping is Friday.

SNOWBOARDING

Weather continued to plaque the halfpipe with a final training session Monday evening.

The men’s final is scheduled Tuesday with Greg Bretz, Danny Davis, Taylor Gold and Shaun White set to go for Team USA.

WATCH LIVE ON TV

NBC Olympics launched the most extensive coverage ever of the Olympic Winter Games on Thursday.

Every event will be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com in addition to 18 straight nights of primetime broadcasts.

NBCSN will present more than 230 hours of Olympic coverage from Sochi, the most Winter Olympic coverage ever on a cable network.

NBCSN will air at least one gold medal final live each day through its 16 days of coverage. Most days, live coverage on NBCSN will begin at 3 a.m. ET and continue for 12 hours.

Sochi Olympics TV Viewers Guide For the next 18 days, the world will be captivated by stories of athletic success. American ski and snowboarding fans can watch it all live on NBC Olympics.com along with extensive network broadcast coverage. Comprehensive coverage of the Olympic Winter Games from Sochi kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8:00 p.m. ET with preliminary rounds of slopestyle snowboarding and freestyle moguls skiing. Television coverage of the Sochi Games will feature an unprecedented 18 consecutive NBC primetime shows, beginning Thursday, Feb. 6, continuing with Friday night's Opening Ceremony and concluding Sunday, Feb. 23 with the Closing Ceremony.

LIVE STREAM Throughout the Games, every skiing and snowboarding event will be streamed LIVE onStream.NBCOlympics.com and via the NBC Sports Live Extra mobile app (iPhone/iPad | Android).